Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339
This Week in Startups
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Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339
Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339
This Week in Startups
1 DAYS AGO
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf joins Jason and Lon to discuss MicroDuck, open models, AI safety, and the company’s cybersecurity breach, followed by debates about AI regulation, robotaxis, AR glasses, internet personalities, and reality competitions.
Thomas Wolf explains how Hugging Face turned an approachable open-source robot into a viral product while building a business around AI data storage, compute, and open models. The conversation covers local AI, robotics education, AI safety, the Hugging Face breach, and the company’s work on defensive cybersecurity. Jason then challenges California’s proposed frontier-model kill switch, arguing for liability, insurance, registration, and identity verification instead. The hosts also examine robotaxi economics, Snap’s AR glasses, practical household uses for AI, Clavicular’s online persona, and the international expansion of Physical 100.
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Slack could become the context layer for AI
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More than 16,000 orders from one post
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Robotics enters the vibe-coding era
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AI safety should follow aviation's example
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Open models are less than a year behind
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AI should help solve cybersecurity
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A robot duck can teach programming
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Start with basic safeguards before extreme AI regulation
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AI is nowhere near taking over the world
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Purpose-built robo-taxis can dramatically lower costs
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The glasses need to reach $500
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AI should prove itself through everyday wins
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Clavicular is a heightened version of himself
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Reality streaming is the new reality TV
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Physical 100 is inspirational
